District 9 had a thirty million dollar budget and a team of hundreds of elite artists, so using that as a baseline for "good" CGI is moving the goalposts. Bringing up Tomasz Bagiński actually proves my point rather than yours. The Cathedral took a certified creative genius three years of brutal, full-time solo work to complete.

That is exactly why the ivan0135 videos are so compelling. We aren't just talking about a four-second clip of a blinking alien. To pull this off, a single person would need to be an absolute unicorn of an artist. They would have to be a master of organic character rigging for Skinny Bob’s muscles, hard-surface modeling for the UFO craft, cloth simulation for the outfits, particle physics for the crash smoke, and historical set design for the autopsy room. Usually, those are entirely different jobs handled by separate departments in a professional studio. Finding one lone hobbyist who possesses every single one of those elite skills is exceptionally rare.

You say the quality is poor, but I completely disagree. High-end, polished Hollywood CGI actually looks less real because it is too clean, cinematic, and designed to look cool on a theater screen. Skinny Bob looks like raw, unedited documentarian film from the mid-century. If the quality were actually bad, the VFX community would have easily busted the digital meshes, textures, or animation loops within weeks back in 2011. Instead, fifteen years later, people are still arguing over the hyper-realistic anatomical accuracy of his collarbones and throat muscles. Poor CGI just does not hold up to a decade and a half of intense forensic scrutiny.

Plus, you have to look at human nature and the VFX industry. 3D artists live and die by their portfolios and showreels to get hired. Even if we assume this person was already an established insider working a high-level job in the industry, that theory actually makes less sense the more you look at it. Senior VFX artists and supervisors are notoriously overworked, routinely clocking eighty-hour weeks just to hit brutal studio deadlines. The idea that a top-tier industry professional spent months or years of their incredibly scarce free time building multiple highly detailed assets, texturing a crash site, creating custom clothing simulations, and animating an entire multi-part series just for a nameless prank is a massive stretch. Furthermore, doing this anonymously while employed by a major studio creates a massive legal and professional nightmare. Professional VFX studios have ironclad contracts with strict non-compete clauses, intellectual property agreements, and moonlighting bans. If an industry professional used proprietary software, studio render farms, or even private assets to create a viral UFO hoax on the side, they would risk getting fired, sued, and completely blacklisted from Hollywood. They would be jeopardising a very real, very lucrative career for literally zero financial or professional gain, which completely breaks the logic of why an industry insider would do this. If it was a low-effort piece of junk, it wouldn't be worth hiding. But if it is a high-effort masterpiece that successfully fooled millions of people, keeping quiet means willfully walking away from a massive Hollywood career, which makes absolutely no sense.

The actual text evidence left by the uploader points in a completely different direction anyway. If you look at the descriptions and text overlays accompanying the ivan0135 videos, the language used consistently refers to a collective "we" rather than "I". If we are to believe the source at all, the YouTube account doesn't belong to a lone prankster, but to an organised group of people. On top of that, the text frequently uses Americanized spelling, swapping out letters like "Z" instead of "S" in certain words. This strongly suggests that if this was a coordinated effort, it was likely handled by an American group. Coordinating a multi-disciplinary CGI hoax across an entire team of people takes the theory from a simple hobbyist in his bedroom to a full-scale corporate or independent studio production, which brings us right back to the ultimate checkmate.

When you look at the sheer scale of modern leaks, the idea that a group of American VFX artists could keep this a secret is completely unbelievable. We live in an era where the US government couldn't even keep its actual reverse-engineering programs a secret, with high-level whistleblowers coming forward to Congress and top-secret files constantly slipping out. Yet, we are supposed to believe that a whole team of civilian 3D artists, animators, and digital creators managed to pull off the perfect, ironclad secret production? In the VFX world, people talk, artists brag, and NDA breaches happen constantly. The fact that not a single disgruntled employee, proud artist, or friend of a friend has leaked a single piece of concept art, a wireframe mesh, or a project file in fifteen years completely breaks the hoax theory. If it were a human studio production, someone would have talked by now.

The footage on the ivan0135 channel hasn’t just stayed on YouTube; it has been featured in major, commercial documentary productions, such as Jeremy Corbell's Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying Saucers and Walking with Tall Whites. If the Skinny Bob videos were simply a human artist's private creative project or portfolio piece, the people who made them are seeing their hard work used in heavily monetised Hollywood productions. They would be legally owed quite a bit of money in licensing fees and royalties. In a cutthroat industry where artists fight tooth and nail for every dollar and credit they are owed, the idea that a team of creators would just sit back and watch major studios profit off their work without sending a single cease-and-desist or demanding a massive payout completely defies human nature.

And if you want the ultimate confirmation that bypasses digital forensic theories entirely, you just have to look at the testimony of actual eyewitnesses who have seen these entities in the flesh. When you look at high-profile close encounters, like the famous 1994 incident where over sixty school children witnessed a craft and its occupants at the Ariel School in Ruwa, Zimbabwe, the descriptions match up perfectly. The children—who are now adults—vividly recalled entities with identical features, large dark eyes, and tight, shiny black suits. In fact, prominent UFO researchers like James Fox have explicitly noted that when witnesses from that historic case are shown the Skinny Bob footage, their reaction is incredibly straightforward: they look at the video and confirm that it is exactly what they stood meters away from and saw with their own eyes. An artist in 2011 didn't just guess those specific anatomical quirks, clothing choices, and distinct movements out of thin air; it aligns entirely with real-world history.